Wisdom I Pondered This Week
- “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson
- Do not mistake a “confident explanation” for an “accurate prediction” — a lot of what you hear can be summarized as: confident, but inaccurate.
- “One of life’s counterintuitive lessons is that you will often gain energy by spending a little bit of energy — If you want to get your day going, then get your body going. It’s harder for the mind to be sluggish when the body is moving.”
- You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
- “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain → Ability is nothing without action.
Things I Learned This Week
- AERO Friedrichshafen: 全球領先的通用航空展
- 以色列 “滴灌 (Drip Irrigation)” 技術 ↔ “漫灌 (Flood Irrigation)” — 最傳統的灌溉方式
- ASCII Art
- 蕎麥麵 (Soba Noodles)
- Palestine (巴勒斯坦)
